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  Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2021 The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which astronomers hope will herald a new era of discovery, was again pushed back Tuesday until at least Christmas Day due to "adverse weather conditions" at the launch site in French Guiana, NASA said. The new target date, if determined to be viable, would be an actual Christmas gift for scientists who have been waiting three decades to see the largest and most powerful telescope take off for space aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The launch window on Satu ... read more |
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NASA sends shipment of supplies, experiments, holiday food to ISSWashington DC (UPI) Dec 21, 2021 A NASA resupply mission to the International Space Station got off the ground in Florida on Tuesday and headed for low Earth orbit with thousands of pounds of cargo, including experiments and holiday fare for the station's crew. ... more 
FAA approves Launch Site Operator License for Spaceport CamdenWoodbine GA (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 Camden County, Georgia, a rocket testing location and alternate launch site for the Apollo program, has reclaimed its aerospace heritage with the issuance of a launch site operator license (LSOL) by ... more 
Science fiction revisited: Ramjet propulsionVienna, Austria (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 In science fiction stories about contact with extraterrestrial civilisations, there is a problem: What kind of propulsion system could make it possible to bridge the enormous distances between the s ... more 
Huayi-1 suborbital rocket makes debut flightBeijing (XNA) Dec 20, 2021 The debut flight of Huayi-1 suborbital rocket took place on Friday afternoon at a testing field in northwestern China, carrying an experimental satellite to an altitude of 250 kilometers, according ... more |
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Looking Back, Looking Forward To New HorizonsBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from deep in the Kuiper Belt - more than 5 billion miles away - even as it speeds farther and farther from the Earth and Sun. A ... more  
A gigantic lane made of raw material for new starsHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 A group of astronomers, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), have identified one of the longest known structures in the Milky Way. It stretches some 3900 light-year ... more  
Dragon delivery - European science destined for spaceParis (ESA) Dec 21, 2021 The next SpaceX resupply vehicle is packed with European science, ready for delivery to the International Space Station just in time for Christmas. The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch ... more  
Cliffs and notches keeps Curiosity team busy: Sols 3330-3332Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2021 We had quite a few special investigations lately, which took the front seat (read: all our power and time) lately. They ranged from boulders to DAN investigations that saw the rover parked very clos ... more  
CesiumAstro accelerates Active Phased Array Payload development for Lunar applicationsAustin TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 CesiumAstro, Inc., with support from The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is accelerating radio frequency (RF) active phased array antenna development enabling dual function com ... more |
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NASA confirms December 24 telescope launchParis (AFP) Dec 18, 2021 The much-delayed launch of the James Webb space telescope will go ahead on December 24, NASA and the company overseeing the launch confirmed on Saturday. ... more 
Investing recovery and resilience funds in space projectsParis (ESA) Dec 20, 2021 Green and digital transition in Europe will benefit from ESA expertise that supports national plans for investing recovery and resilience funds in space projects. At the 303rd ESA Council meet ... more 
Cracking the mystery of nitrogen ice dynamics on PlutoParis, France (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Sputnik Planitia, a basin on the surface of Pluto1 filled with nitrogen ice, displays an astonishing pattern of flat polygons separated by narrow troughs. This feature is a sign of thermal convectio ... more  
Kacific goes all-in on AWS to scale up delivery of its broadband internetSingapore (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 Kacific Broadband Satellites has announced that it is going all-in on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale up the delivery of its broadband internet for the rural regions of Southeast Asia and the Pac ... more 
STOKE Space Raises $65M Series A to Make Space Access Sustainable and ScalableKent WA (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 Reusable rocket developer STOKE Space has announced the close of a $65 million funding round that the company will use to develop its fully and rapidly reusable rocket. The funding will enable the c ... more |
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 Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 20, 2021 
A Japanese billionaire returned to Earth Monday, after 12 days on the International Space Station where he made videos about performing mundane tasks including brushing teeth and going to the bathroom.
Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano parachuted onto Kazakhstan's steppe at around the expected landing time of 0313 GMT Monday, along with Russian cosmonaut Ale ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2021 
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which astronomers hope will herald a new era of discovery, was again pushed back Tuesday until at least Christmas Day due to "adverse weather conditions" at the launch site in French Guiana, NASA said.
The new target date, if determined to be viable, would be an actual Christmas gift for scientists who have been waiting three decades to see the l ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2021 
The 17th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Dec. 5 pushed the total flight time past the 30-minute mark. The 117-second sortie brought history's first aircraft to operate from the surface of another world closer to its original airfield, "Wright Brothers Field," where it will await the arrival of the agency's Perseverance Mars rover, currently exploring "South Seitah" region of Mars' ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 20, 2021 
Chinese astronauts live and work more conveniently and comfortably in orbit with the application of advanced information technology, said the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
There are smart home systems in China's space station core module Tianhe, Bai Linhou, deputy chief designer of the space station at the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) under the CASC ... more |
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Green and digital transition in Europe will benefit from ESA expertise that supports national plans for investing recovery and resilience funds in space projects.
At the 303rd ESA Council meeting in Paris on 15 December 2021, ESA Member States took the decision to further the role of ESA as provider of expertise in support of national space plans, in particular in order to accompany the in ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 
The Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Northern Command and the Space Force marked the completion of construction on the long-range discrimination radar site at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska, during a ceremony on Monday.
The multi-mission LRDR is designed, for now, to better track incoming ballistic missiles. It combines the capabilities of lower frequency radars - which can track multiple o ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
It's hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus is a scorched and suffocating wasteland where life as we know it could not survive. The planet's clouds are similarly hostile, blanketing the planet in droplets of sulfuric acid caustic enough to burn a hole through human s ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from deep in the Kuiper Belt - more than 5 billion miles away - even as it speeds farther and farther from the Earth and Sun.
As 2021 winds down, I want to recount what the New Horizons project has accomplished this year, and also look ahead to tell you about our plans for 2022.
During a busy and productive 2021, our sc ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
The mystery of knowing where the proverbial message in a bottle thrown overboard in the open sea will eventually wash ashore has not been solved. But DARPA's recent Forecasting Floats in Turbulence (FFT) challenge took an exploratory first step toward trying to understand the turbulent convergence of wind, waves, and currents on the surface of the ocean - and its effect on objects floating at se ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 09, 2021 
Europe's largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December. Galileo satellites 27-28 add to an existing 26-satellite constellation in orbit, providing the world's most precise satnav positioning to more than 2.3 billion users around the globe.
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 20, 2021 
A pretty special gift unwrapping will soon take place - a piercing tool built by ESA will open a Moon soil container from Apollo 17 that has gone untouched for nearly 50 years. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases which may have been preserved in the sample.
Analysis of the gaseous volatiles will allow scientists to better understand the geology of the Moon and hel ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
Every so often, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud throw galactic snowballs made up of ice, dust and rocks our way: 4.6-billion-year-old leftovers from the formation of the solar system.
These snowballs - or as we know them, comets - go through a colourful metamorphosis as they cross the sky, with many comets' heads turning a radiant green colour that gets brighter as they approach the Sun. ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 
Virgin Orbit, the responsive launch and space solutions company that has announced a planned business combination with NextGen Acquisition Corp. II, has announced an agreement to acquire a 17.5% stake in geospatial analytics company Hypersat LLC.
This investment will further expand Virgin Orbit's space solutions business by providing highly accurate electro-optic and hyperspectral imagery ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere - the corona - and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.
The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching ... more |
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 Baltimore (AFP) Dec 22, 2021  "White-knuckle" - That's how Rusty Whitman describes the month ahead, after the launch of the historic James Webb Space Telescope, now tentatively set for Saturday.
From a secure control room in Baltimore, Maryland, Whitman and his colleagues will hold their breath as Webb comes online. But that's just the beginning.
For the first six months after Webb's launch, Whitman and the team at ... more |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Dec 17, 2021  Upending textbook explanations, astrophysicists from the University of Miami, Yale University, and the European Space Agency suggest that primordial black holes account for all dark matter in the universe.
Proposing an alternative model for how the universe came to be, a team of astrophysicists suggests that all black holes-from those as tiny as a pin head to those covering billions of miles-we ... more |
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